linux-ext4 - Re: [Bug 29402] kernel panics while running ffsb scalability workloads on 2.6.38-rc1 through -rc5

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Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:30:05 +0100 (CET)
From:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 29402] kernel panics while running ffsb scalability workloads
 on 2.6.38-rc1 through -rc5

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:

> Unfortunately, I omitted the argument, and that's what's confusing you.

That's what I was afraid of. Fortunately we know where to look now. It
seems that the problem is really in the lazy init code in ext4. It is
possible that due some locking problem we might be zeroing existing
inode. Did you tried to run fsck on that filesystem after the crash ?

Thanks!
-Lukas
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